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Hagiology
Ss. Constantine and Helen
James W. Lillie
21 May 2013
At Eastertide, at some undetermined place and year, the Emperor Constantine I made his Oration to th...
Saint Constantine the Great
Meletios Stathis
21 May 2013
The very name of Constantine is enough to move the heart of any Greek Christian, not only today, but...
The Venerable Ioane of Shavta, Bishop of Gaenati, and Evlogi, the Prophet and Fool-For-Christ
19 May 2013
The Venerable Ioane of Shavta, Bishop of Gaenati, and Evlogi, the Prophet and Fool-For-Christ (13th ...
Saint Paraskevi from Epivates, the Patron Saint of the Balkans -2
1 May 2013
After the fall of Belgrade to the Turks, the majority of residents were forced to relocate to areas ...
Saint Paraskevi from Epivates, the Patron Saint of the Balkans -1
25 April 2013
Blessed Paraskevi.  The fragrant blossom of the desert “God is marvellous in His saints” are the wo...
The Memory of the Blessed Mary the Egyptian
Nektarios Thanos
21 April 2013
“… her many sins have been remitted, because she loved greatly” Luke 7, 47.             On the Fift...
Saint John of the Ladder
Archimandrite Yeoryios Alendas
14 April 2013
Great Lent is a period of repentance, during which our stony hearts must become, through God’s grace...
Gregory Palamas: Two Parallel Eras
Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos)
30 March 2013
The Historical Contexts. The feast, on the Second Sunday of Lent, of Saint Gregory Palamas, who liv...
St Theodore’s miracle
23 March 2013
St Theodore the Tyron was from the area of city of Amasia in Pontus. He was a Roman soldier during M...
Filotheï, Patron Saint of Athens [2]
Fotis Kondoglou
21 February 2013
On the eve of the feast of Saint Dionysios in 1589, she was in the monastery she had founded in Pati...
Filotheï, Patron Saint of Athens (February 19) [1]
Fotis Kondoglou
19 February 2013
Saint Filotheï was born in Athens to illustrious parents, the only child of Angelos Benizelos and hi...
Evangelist Luke “the Beloved Physician.”
Archbishop Lazar Puhalo
15 February 2013
It has become a commonplace of for critics to suggest doubts about the authorship of Luke's Gospel a...
The Image of the Turks in the Vitae of the Neomartyrs of the Orthodox Church
Metropolitan of Prusa, Dr. Elpidoforos Lambryniades
15 February 2013
The image that one nation has for another goes through different levels of the social, cultural, p...
Your Highness, we’ve been defeated: Basil the Great
Stylianos G. Papadopoulos
5 February 2013
Until then, Orthodoxy in Cappadocia seemed very much like an islet in the East.  Valens let loose th...
A single man ends a cruel custom
29 January 2013
­­­­­­­The festal nature of this time of year makes it difficult for us to recollect an impressive a...
The Holy New- Virgin Martyr Kyranna, Patron Saint of Ossa, Langada
27 January 2013
Saint Kyranna was born in Avissoka, Thessaloniki, now known as Ossa in the region of Langada. Her e...
Was Saint Kosmas Aitolos a Racist? – An Interview with Professor Vasileios Kalliakmanis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
4 January 2013
On the occasion of the commemoration of Saint Kosmas Aitolos, we talk to Professor Vasileios Kalliak...
Joseph Shows Mercy
Fr. Michael Gillis
3 January 2013
According to the Proto-Gospel of James, Righteous Joseph was away for the summer doing construction ...
Saint Ahmed
24 December 2012
ST AHMED THE CALLIGRAPHER The holy New Martyr Ahmed was born in the seventeenth century to a Muslim...
Saint Spiridon, the patron of Corfu island (12/12)
12 December 2012
The holiest shrine on the island of Kerkyra(Corfu) just off the western coast of Greece is the tomb ...
Stylites
11 December 2012
Stylites (the Greek word style means pillar) In the early days of the Byzantine Empire, the love fo...
St. Nicholas the Orphan
6 December 2012
St. Nicholas’ Day will be celebrated in the church of St. Nicholas Orphanos  in Thessaloniki On t...
December 5: Saints Celebrated
5 December 2012
Daily readings Eastern Orthodox Church Calendar Wednesday, December 5, 2012: Saints Celebrated Tod...
Saint Mary Magdalene: The Revision of the Role of a Prominent Apostle
28 November 2012
The years between 1976-1985 were declared by the United Nations to be the “Decade of the Rights of W...
The life of Saint Arsenios (Hadjiephentis) – Part III
Elder Paisios the Athonite
27 November 2012
All the Pharasiotes began their preparations at once, just as Father Arsenios did. First he baptised...
“No Saint was loved in the West more than St Catherine”
25 November 2012
Sinai became widely known, particularly in Europe, with the spreading of the fame and cult of St. Ca...
Prophesies by St. Kosmas Aitolos
24 November 2012
Father Kosmas Aitolos was born in 1714 in the Greek village Megalo Dendro (Big Tree) in the region o...
The life of Saint Arsenios (Hadjiephentis) – Part II
Elder Paisios the Athonite
21 November 2012
While he was always charitable towards others, Father Arsenios was very hard on himself, and, out of...
The lion and the hermit: St. Gerasimos the Jordanite
Eva Topping
17 November 2012
Once upon a time there lived in the desert by the Jordan River a very holy hermit. His name was Gera...
The life of Saint Arsenios (Hadjiephentis) – Part I
Elder Paisios the Athonite
15 November 2012
The most Blessed Father Arsenios was born around1840 in Pharasa or Varasio, the most important of th...
St. Moses the Ethopian
Eva Topping
10 November 2012
Moses the Ethiopian was tall as a tree, strong as Samson, and black as a starless night. He was also...
The New Blessed Martyr Nektarios (Skete of Saint Ann) from Vryoulla in Asia Minor
Monk Moses the Athonite
9 November 2012
He was born in Vryoulla or Vourla in Asia Minor. As a seventeen-year-old, he and six other Christian...
November 8: St. Simeon the Translator (metaphrastis)
8 November 2012
In the ninth century a man's concern for a biographical record of the saints of the Church up to his...
November 4: St. Porphyrios the Mimic
George Poulos
4 November 2012
Christianity is the world's greatest source of joy, but it is no laughing matter. No one would think...
The Thessalonian Saints Cyril and Methodios, Teachers of the Slavs – Part IΙΙ
Panagiotis Christou
3 November 2012
In Slovenia The Moravians and Slovenians were waiting impatiently for the brothers, but they did no...
Apples from heaven: St. Euphrosynos the Cook
Eva Topping
3 November 2012
Obscurity surrounds the birth of St. Euphrosynos the Cook. No one knows when or where he lived. The ...
November 1: Saints Cosmas and Damian
George Poulos
1 November 2012
Christianity flourished in an­tiquity in the face of seeming­ly insurmountable odds. In de­fiance of...
October 31: The life of St. Stachys
George Poulos
31 October 2012
In recent years there has been a rash of new religions erupt­ing on the community skin, a kind of ...
October 29: St. Anastasia of Rome
29 October 2012
If it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kin...
The Thessalonian Saints Cyril and Methodios, Teachers of the Slavs – Part IΙ
Panagiotis Christou
28 October 2012
The World of the Slavs  The Slavs first appeared in history at the end of the first century A.D. Th...
October 26, Feast of Great Martyr Saint Demetrios, The Myrrh-Streamer
25 October 2012
Saint Demetrios suffered in Thessalonica during the reign of Galerius Maximian (c. 306). He belonged...
The baker’s son: St. Tychon of Cyprus
Eva Topping
25 October 2012
Long ago in the days when Arcadius and Honorius ruled the Roman Empire, a saint was born on the isla...
The New Martyr Nannos (Ioannis) the Thessalonian (1785 – 29 May, 1802)
Thanasis Hatzimitakos
25 October 2012
The new martyr Nannos/Ioannis belongs to the Macedonian new martyrs. He was martyred in Smyrna in 18...
Saint Luke the Surgeon, Archbishop of the Crimea (1877-1961) – Part IIΙ
Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Sagmata - Archimandrite Nectarios Antonopoulos
23 October 2012
In 1932, a tumor appeared and he went to Leningrad to be operated on by an oncologist. Fortunately, ...
The Thessalonian Saints Cyril and Methodios, Teachers of the Slavs – Part I
Panagiotis Christou
23 October 2012
By the beginning of the ninth century, more than a thousand years had already passed since the found...
Saint Luke the Surgeon, Archbishop of the Crimea (1877-1961) – Part II
Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Sagmata - Archimandrite Nectarios Antonopoulos
10 October 2012
It was also in the ’20s that the “correction” facilities were set up, the forced labour camps known ...
Saint Luke the Surgeon, Archbishop of the Crimea (1877-1961) – Part I
Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Sagmata - Archimandrite Nectarios Antonopoulos
28 September 2012
If you ever find yourself on the Holy Mountain or in other old churches, you will notice that many o...
Modern Saints
Monk Moses the Athonite
9 August 2012
Fairly or not, the times in which we live have been criticized for many reasons. And yet, difficul...
St. Mary of Egypt
Fr. Michael Gillis
3 July 2012
In the Holy Orthodox Church on the fifth week of Great Lent we read the life of St. Mary of Egypt:...
Hidden Saints
Fr. Stephen Freeman
30 June 2012
The first Sunday after Pentecost is traditionally observed as the Sunday of All Saints in the Orthod...
My Most Favorite Champion
Maria C. Khoury, Ed. D.
9 May 2012
Holy sepulchre I was just visiting Shepherds’ Field the other day that is the precise location wher...
The Holy Martyr Nektarios Agiannanitis († 1922)
19 February 2012
He was born at Vourla of Smyrna in Asia Minor. First he lived as a monk at the Cell dedicated to C...
St Athanasios the Athonite
Elder - Joseph of Vatopaidi
5 February 2012
According to his biography, St Athanasios hailed from the east, from Trapezounta. After concluding...
The Role of Saints in our Christian Lives
Abbot of All-Merciful Savior Monastery - Archimandrite Tryphon
2 December 2011
 Growing up Lutheran I always believe the veneration of saints by Roman Catholics and Orthodox Chris...
St. Maxim The Greek, Vatopedinos, The tireless preacher of Patristic Tradition

7 November 2011
During its long historical past the Great Holy Vatopedi Monastery has proved to have played a double...
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The Memory of the Blessed Mary the Egyptian
Feast of the Annunciation at Vatopaidi
Hieromonk Neofytos from Vatopedi (1876-3 April 1967)
Penthos: The Lenten Journey to Joy
Shockingly in Paradise
On Humility
Archimandrite Agathangelos Mikhaïlidis- Xenofontinos (1908-1...
Saint John of the Ladder
John the Sinaite (+ Fourth Sunday of Great Lent): “On Vaingl...
Why are we called Christians
Concerning the Diet of the Fathers
Dimensions of the Fast
Person and Spirituality
The Orthodox Church of Finland
The Veneration of the Cross